[plt-scheme] A data point on 'match' in intro programming: +++!

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi<sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> It would be *just* one more (and arguably hardly the biggest one).
>
> Your argument is largely the same one people use to justify teaching
> Java in the first semester.

In the long run, teaching "advanced" language features is better for
the economy, because it creates jobs. How?

When your former students leave their jobs, they need additional
programmers to re-write their code because it is "too hard to
understand".

You think I am joking?